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145 years ago this week

Matt Hutson
From the Apr. 14, 1881,

edition of the Fairplay

Flume


• The railroad graders are

again at work upon the Fairplay

extension of the South

Park. A dozen or fifteen men

arrived with the contractors

the first of the week,

and some more were added

to the force here. The gang

of men commenced work at

a point in the gulch where

they left off last fall and

worked there up to yesterday,

when the contractors

received word to take all

men off the gulch work and

begin work south of the big

cut on the south bank of the

Platte.

• The trains will begin

running into Fairplay by the

Fourth of July, so says current

rumor, but we think it

is likely